Autumn Sunlight: Intensive Watercolour Class With 2 Vivid Plots

Learn to Create Expressive Autumn Illustrations With Watercolor

What you'll learn
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What you'll learn

plan the work in layers and determine the individual steps in advance
how to build up a composition
different watercolor techniques such as wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry
how to get edge control when working with watercolors
how to use different brush techniques
different ways of mixing colors especially for vivid fall foliage
how to set the scene for ordinary motifs with simple means

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Course description

Learn to paint step-by-step stylish watercolor painting with Rabi. She will show you different watercolor techniques and also how to make an ordinary plot interesting with the right approach to creating your own work.

This course is about 7,5 hours in total.

In the first and second part you will learn to paint a streetlamp with colorful autumn leaves.

And in the third part you will paint a path through a romantic autumn forest under Rabi's guidance.

In the end, you'll have 2 beautiful, autumn postcard designs and you can apply the knowledge to other actions as well.

Both sessions start at 10.30 am and last about 3 hours.

This is a recorcing of a LIVE-Course.

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Requirements

You are welcome to use your own favorite colors and brushes. Rabi uses colors from Winsor & Newton and brushes from DaVinci. If you want you can order them here, from our friends at Gustavson: https://www.gustavson.store/rabi-al

Materials:

Paper:
- 100% cotton, cold pressed, minimum 300 gr/m2. A4 for example Winsor and Newton

Colors Winsor and Newton
- Transparent Alizarin Crimson
- Transparent Orange
- Natural Sienna
- Cobalt Turquoise
- Lavendel (Daniel Smith)
- Burned Sienna
- Cerulean
- Ultramarine
- Aqua Green
- Paynes Grey
- White Gouache

Brushes:
- Medium round brush ( Da Vinci Mix B size 2)
- Large flat brush (Da Vinci Petit Gruß 16)!
- Small syntetic brush for details (Davinci Cosmotop Mix B )
- Liner Brush (DaVinci Casaneo)

Other Materials:

- Masking fluid
- Mechanical pencil 2B
- Eraser, if you like
- 2 Water Containers
- White Mixing Palette
- Cloth or Paper Towels
- Paper Tape

Please prepare the Sketch for the first session.

Content

Rabi Alieva

Watercolor artist

Rabi Alieva is a watercolor artist and designer who absorbs different methods and techniques of how to teach drawing. She gladly shares her experience of how to learn to draw impressive watercolors in a short time.

This course includes: